Silent flights: How Owls Could Help Make Wind Turbines and Planes Quieter
A newly-designed material, which mimics the wing structure of owls, could help make wind turbines, computer fans and even planes…
Alaska Army National Guard Black Hawk Crews Help Fight Alaska Fires
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and aircrews from the 1st Battalion, 207th…
Alaska Leaders Seek to Improve Justice System
JUNEAU – Alaska Wednesday launched a comprehensive review of the state’s criminal justice system aimed at developing data-driven reforms to…
Big Dinosaurs Steered Clear of the Tropics
For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a…
Kennewick Man: Solving a Scientific Controversy
A 8,500 year old male skeleton discovered in 1996 in Columbia River in Washington State has been the focus of…
Dylann Roof, Charleston Church Shooter Arrested During Traffic Stop
21-year-old Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman that slaughtered nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church on Wednesday night is…
Alaskan Concerns Escalate As British Columbia Government Gives Red Chris Mine Final Operating Permit
JUNEAU, ALASKA – Last week’s ill-conceived decision by the British Columbia government to issue a final operating permit for Red…
House Committee Reviews Arctic Offshore Energy Development
Washington, D.C. – A panel of Alaskan witnesses testified Tuesday before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy & Minerals…
South Korean MERS Outbreak a ‘Wake-up Call’
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea shows the…
Lightning Ignites More Fires Near Willow as Sockeye Continues to Burn
Thunderstorms have moved through the Willow area where the 7,500 acre Sockeye Fire continues to burn, and lightning strikes have complicated…